Chapter 66: Take advantage of firepower.
People from Guangdong and Fujian were probably fellow sufferers during the Qing Dynasty, and were very unpopular with the upper-class rulers of the Qing Dynasty—even their younger brothers from Guangdong, those from Guangxi and Qiongzhou Prefecture, were not very popular either.
This was also the place where the most rebellions occurred during the Qing Dynasty, and it was also the base camp of anti-Qing underworld groups such as the Tiandihui.
That's why the Qing Dynasty stationed 70,000 to 80,000 troops in Guangdong and Guangxi, and also wanted Manchu princes of Fukang'an's level to guard Guangdong and Guangxi.
Therefore, Fukang'an's worry is not unreasonable - otherwise he would not be so wary of the local tycoons in Guangdong.
Now every regiment training team is assigned supervisors from the Eight Banners of the Han Army, just to prevent these rich men from Guangdong from having other ideas.
A cavalry group of about three hundred riders filed out.
The Eight Banners Han Army is also a member of the Eight Banners, and there are still many cavalry among the three upper banners (Zhengbai, Zhenghuang, and Xianghuang).
The cavalry of the Eight Banners are equipped with cold weapons such as bows, arrows, and lances, and are covered with cotton armor. The inner layer of the cotton armor is usually inlaid with iron sheets.
Three hundred cavalry were sent as support.
The three thousand green battalions led by Yang Liufang lined up and moved forward in battle formation.
"Sir, the Ming army is out!"
Of course Yang Liufang also saw what was happening on the Ming army side.
"So loose? Are you here to seek death?"
Yang Liufang was slightly stunned.
A quick response followed.
"Raise your gun and prepare, take turns shooting!"
After Yang Liufang issued the order.
Soon, green soldiers carrying guns were attracted to the side of the formation facing the Ming army. They only waited for the Ming army's hunters to enter the shooting range and opened fire.
"Pay attention, listen to my orders!"
There were only three combat teams around Zeng Ada.
Counting himself, there were four combat teams, a total of twelve people.
Since it was a skirmishing line, the soldiers were spread too far apart.
Therefore, the command of combat operations must be handed down to the team leader who is organized into three combat teams.
As a platoon leader, it was difficult for Zeng Ada to centrally command all the soldiers in his platoon during combat. He could only command the three-person squads around him.
Zeng Ada was holding a musket and trotting quickly, while staring at the Qing army carrying the gunmen in front of him.
As a green battalion officer from the Qing army in front waved a small flag.
Ada Zeng yelled: "Get down!"
Snapped!
Very soon.
The eleven hunters who followed him fell to the ground with a snap, and some of the more clever ones even lay down under the shallow field ridge.
The crackling sounds of guns were raised in turn.
Zeng Ada was lying on the ground, using a field ridge as cover. He turned his head slightly and looked at the sky. He could see the gun whizzing past less than two meters above his head.
"One shot, two shots..."
Zeng Ada silently calculated the sound of the gun being raised.
This large-caliber matchlock gun is very slow to load.
The barrel is too long.
Almost as long as it takes to load a muzzleloading smoothbore cannon.
Although the opponent adopted a method of shooting in turns.
But after one round of shooting.
The smoke produced by the black powder used as propellant in raising the gun will obscure the shooter's sight....
therefore.
Just wait for this round of shots to pass.
Wait for the opponent to reload for the second round of shooting.
I don't know where the gun will fly to.
"It's now!"
As the tenth shot was counted, Zeng Ada immediately waved his hand and led the combat team around him to crouch and trot forward quickly with their guns in hand.
really.
The Qing army's military formation was already filled with smoke.
In order to exert firepower, the Qing army also had tactics such as the "Nine Advances and Ten Chains" to exert firepower.
For example, Yang Liufang's taking turns to shoot and cover the formation just now is a simplified version of the "Nine Advances and Ten Chains Strategy".
After a round of gun-raising.
Thick smoke has completely obscured the Qing army's formation.
It was difficult for Yang Liufang in the formation to see clearly the movements of the Ming army in front.
But before that.
He saw it very clearly.
Gunshots just rang out.
The Ming army on the opposite side fell to the ground.
"It can't be so accurate, right? Is it God's blessing?"
Yang Liufang looked at the sky.
By the way...
If there really is a God.
Will it protect the Qing Dynasty?
Yang Liufang suddenly became excited.
This idea.
It's really too rebellious.
He quickly gathered his thoughts.
Squint your eyes and look ahead.
On the broad Pearl River, the river wind blew away the smoke and stunned Yang Liufang.
As the smoke dissipates.
He suddenly saw it.
The Ming army's hunters, who were still more than a hundred steps away before, no longer knew when they had suddenly advanced to a distance of fifty or sixty steps.
Snapped!
Bang bang bang!
Continuous gunfire rang out.
More than two hundred Ming army hunters aimed their muskets at the Qing troops carrying their guns.
At a distance of about seventy or eighty meters.
The hit rate of flintlock guns is actually much higher than people think.
Especially when the flintlock gun does not fire single-head bullets, but one large and two small shotguns.
at this distance.
Those Green Camp soldiers who were only wearing linen clothes and almost without armor would not be able to stand up alive as long as they were hit.
As gunfire rang out.
Suddenly, dozens of green battalion gunmen collapsed to the ground.
There was no reaction from the Qing army yet.
After firing the projectiles of the flintlock gun in their hands, the Ming army hunters did not continue to reload, but lay on the ground. One soldier in the three-person combat team was responsible for carrying the grenade, and the other two carried cannonballs. .
soon.
The hand-held grenade is unfolded, and underneath is a square spacer to prevent the recoil from driving the barrel into the soft mud. The gun mount and the barrel form a triangle, and there is an adjuster to adjust the angle of the cannon.
"Seventy meters! Angle sixty! Six-round rapid fire! Start!"
Zeng Ada estimated the distance.
Then the order to shoot was immediately given.
Bang bang bang!
The dull sound kept ringing.
A small-caliber artillery shell with a charge that was about 50% larger than the standard hand grenade used by the Ming army was thrown out, and even formed a small barrage in the air.
The Ming army hunters who were shooting did not check the artillery shooting effect.
Just focus on reloading quickly.
Follow the Chasseur Company Tactical Manual.
their main purpose.
It is to quickly approach the enemy in a skirmish formation.
Then they used grenades to throw out all six artillery shells carried by each combat group. After exerting their firepower, they quickly retreated, leaving the battlefield to the infantry battalion.
In the south, there are dense water networks and complex terrain such as hills, mountains, and dense forests.
This combat mode is more flexible and allows the infantry battalion to not always have to rely on the support of the artillery battalion equipped with large-caliber artillery shells.
Of course.
Such a configuration of the Chasseur Company.
What is needed are soldiers who are not afraid of death, full of courage and combat initiative and enthusiasm - if they are those soldiers who rush to fill the battle lines with strong men.
Have them fight in skirmish lines.
I'm afraid the soldiers will spread out.
Nine times out of ten, you won't be able to take it back...
Bang...
Snapped...
Artillery shells came continuously from the sky, and most of them fell into the Qing army's formation.
The six long-barreled cannons were obviously given special attention.
One shell even landed directly on a powder cart being pulled by a mule.
"Flower bomb!!!!"
A shrill roar sounded from the Qing army's formation.
He didn't wait for the sound to come out.
boom!
The roar of the shells drowned everything.
